I have to agree with a few of the reviewers: the food here is cheap and excellent, and you'll end…read moreup buying stuff you don't "need" but you won't regret it. However, Ikea has bulked up its healthy food options in what is basically a massive cafeteria covering the entire top floor. And despite there being literally hundreds of seats here, finding a spot to sit and eat can be tough. I wouldn't be surprised if people came here for the food alone. As you can imagine, the place is teeming with screaming babies, kids running around in different directions, and parents looking harried. These can be avoided by staying out of flooded areas, however. The way the store is set up - a path of yellow tape - somehow makes you feel like you're walking along the yellow brick road. It also makes it difficult and maze-like if you want to leave before you've walked the whole path. (You can't cut back to the beginning either because of the way the escalators are set up.) Various labels and posters are graffitied by customers, as you get a pencil and notepad on the way in to write down the serial number for warehouse-stored items. It's the same deal with the graffiti inside the toilets. There's some pretty funny graffiti here, even some intelligent stuff. Judging by the handwriting, a child of about 8 years old in one of the bathroom stalls started a list for people to join the fight against Voldemort's army. I think I was signature number 14. On the bathroom front, I don't think I've ever seen so many stalls in one place. No queuing here. But of course Ikea is all about doing it on a large scale. As I've come to expect, I came back with a few things I didn't need. Or rather, things I didn't think I needed. It turns out my dog is obsessed with the moose hand puppet (around $2-$3) to the exclusion of all her other toys. As long as she doesn't bite my hand off, you'd have to say that's a good buy.

What a sad state of affairs the food is here. The overcooked chips to the odd flavored salt and…read morepepper squid. The price one of $10 for the meatballs is a rip too Food 3/10 service 4/10 decor 7/10

The second star is for them being friendly and appearing helpful,…read moreBut be wary of being short-changed if you are picking up sand or soil. My trailer volume measured 0.75m3 and I asked for 0.5m3 It was loaded with aprox. 1/3 volume, maybe a little more, 0.3 m3 to 0.4 m3 Definitely not 0.5 m3, I didn't have time to argue...next time I'll go somewhere else

I'm not a gardener but as a supportive wife of a gardener, I've dutifully trekked to Redback Garden…read moreCentre and tuned out idle conversations about the composition of different types of compost and helped carry purchases of mulch and potting mix to the car. Yawn. Our latest experience with Redback involved the purchase of 1 tonne of sand for our nephew's sandpit. I got a bad feeling when my brother-in-law told me it sounded like a young child had taken the order for the delivery including his credit card details over the phone. This bad feeling only grew when the order didn't show up at the agreed upon time. Finally, my brother-in-law called up Redback and it turned out they had mistaken the delivery date. They also had no record of the payment being made. Fortunately, they handled the mix up well and a delivery truck filled with sand arrived within the hour. The tonne of sand cost $250 including delivery fee. Helpful Hint: This isn't advertised on the website but I saw on their giant billboard that if you 'like' them on facebook, you can get a 10% discount. There's no facebook link on their website though but I found their facebook page here: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Redback-Landscape-Supplies/270339169681884